I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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